#keith calhoun

[quo-usque-tandem]

Mother with Child, St. Luke’s Baptist Church, Moonshine Village by Keith Calhoun

[desrac]

‘Man Plaiting Hair’

[ukiyo-es]

Chandra McCormick & Keith Calhoun, stills from The Right to Return series, 2006-

From their website: As New Orleans recovered from Hurricane Katrina, Calhoun and McCormick took waterlogged negatives and made a new body of work that literally captures the moment when the levees broke. In spite of the horrors of this event, the colorful and wordless abstraction of this process suggests a way forward, and a hope for the return of lost beauty.

[torrid-wind]

(Both titled): “Lockdown” - photo by Keith Calhoun, from “The Angola Series”, c.1980

These photos were taken in the Louisiana State Penitentiary a.k.a. Angola, named after the country from which many of the slaves came who worked on this former plantation. It is the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

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[atoubaa]

Going to the River, from the River Road series (1986) - Keith Calhoun

[torrid-wind]

23 Hour Lockdown, Chess Players (1980) - photo by Keith Calhoun, from “The Angola Series”, c.1980

This photo was taken in the Louisiana State Penitentiary a.k.a. Angola, named after the country from which many of the slaves came who worked on this former plantation. It is the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

(***Click image or title link to  view in high resolution***)

[binkloves]

Keith Calhoun and Chandra Mckormick, the keepers of culture.